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National debt, including long-term and short-term debt, amounted to NT$6.23 trillion as of the end of last month, up NT$99.55 billion from a month earlier, the ministry’s data showed.

Government bonds — the central government’s outstanding debt with a maturity of more than a year — totaled NT$5.945 trillion, while Treasury bills — outstanding debt with a maturity of less than a year — stood at NT$285 billion, the data showed.

Wholesale deliveries climbed to 1.73 million units last month, the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said in an e-mail yesterday. That compares with the 1.5 million unit average of six analyst estimates compiled by Bloomberg.